About ssc-3

Information about the data including data types, experiments, format of the data, how to download the data.

Summary of the data

These data contain a record of neuron spiking activity in mouse somatosensory cortex. The recordings were performed in organotypic slice cultures after 2 to 4 weeks in vitro. The recordings were performed with a large and dense multielectrode array (512 electrodes, 60 μm interelectrode spacing, 5 μm electrode diameter, flat electrodes, roughly 1 mm by 2 mm total array area). The cultures were not stimulated, so these data represent spontaneous activity. The spiking activity was spike sorted using PCA. Details about the recording method are described in [1, 2], and results from these particular data are presented in [1, 3-6]. In total, 25 recordings are provided, most of which possess hundreds of neurons (min: 98, max: 594, mean: 309, total: 7735).

Format of the data

All information for each individual recording is contained in a numbered Matlab .mat file named DataSetX, where X is the number of the data set (1 to 25). The Matlab structures are described in the document linked to at the end of this page. Total data size is about 184 MB compressed.

Conditions for usage of this data in publications

Before you publish any work using these data, we ask that you first consult the authors. Furthermore, please cite publications [1, 2] as these papers describe the experimental methods. Also, please consider citing to these additional works that used these data [3-6]. Finally, please cite the data set in the following recommended format:

The above citation uses a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) which is
assigned to the data set. The DOI was created using DataCite (www.datacite.org) and the California Digital Library, "EZID" system (ezid.cdlib.org).